Is redis safe to use?

redis has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (8.1.0). DepScope rates its health at 68/100 (moderate risk).

What is the latest version of redis?

The latest version of redis is 8.1.0, released 2026-07-30.

Does redis have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of redis.

No, redis is actively maintained. Latest release: 8.1.0 (2026-07-30).

What are alternatives to redis?

Popular alternatives to redis in PyPI include: urllib3, cryptography, cffi, click, pydantic-core.

redis

pypiv8.1.0

Python client for Redis database and key-value store

License MITpermissive169 versions11 deps

redis/redis-py

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Health

use with caution

[email protected] low health (68/100) — consider alternatives

Moderate health score (68/100) — verify manually

Health breakdown0 – 100

20/25

maintenance

0/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

8/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

22

Contributors (12m)

35

Primary author dominance

38%

GitHub stars

13,520

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.78critical

Download trend

rapid growth(+65.3%)

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

Dependencies (11)

async-timeout pybreaker hiredis pyjwt cryptography pyopenssl requests opentelemetry-api opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-http opentelemetry-sdk xxhash~

API access

Get this data programmatically — free, no authentication.

curl https://depscope.dev/api/check/pypi/redis